Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you. In the spirit of transparency, will you have your speech online somewhere where we can go back?

But we’re really lucky to have that. But I do believe that you are not the only person—we know you’re not the only person in the world. We’re lucky to have you today. But I so encourage you to find the Audrey of your community and to work with that ...

We’re really lucky today to have somebody who has worked in this cross-sector, and so we can talk about advice but also case studies and examples from each and every field we do. We are coming to the end of our panel, but I really do encourage everyone to continue ...

But I keep looking back, looping back to some of our colleagues who either they are more risk-averse because of their communities or literally they cannot be pushing for such progress. And the point you made about your example with Taiwan before martial law was lifted and some of the ...

Exactly. Now we’re back to policy then, which is really, really, really important here. So what might democracy look like in a digital space?

So getting the policymakers to make that change.

So let’s unpack that a little bit more. How do you… you’re telling them it’s not a choice. People don’t like to hear that. They like to hear that “I have a choice, and I’m making the right choice.” How are you convincing somebody else to make that choice without ...

I wanted to ask, I think you’ve covered a lot of it. A lot of it is just, you know, how do we as social enterprises use technology for good? Is one of the big things that I think is on everybody’s mind when we walk away today. But you ...

So that’s a great scenario you just outlined, but for many companies who work with customers or suppliers, we are also collecting a lot of data from the general public. So do you have a bit of a checklist for us? You know, how do we make sure that the ...

That’s a lot of training and a lot of data. What do you do with that data afterwards? How do you consider privacy in the new era?

There’s a lot of push for AI, a lot of push, whether it’s from not just from the investment side, the technology side. And I think for some of us, you can not work with AI, right? You can continue to work as is. AI can be very scary with ...

And bridging that to technology, do you have examples of some of these spaces in the world where there’s more limited space of how to push progress, but they’re leveraging technology to their advantage? Do you have examples of that to show that someone can maybe learn from and be ...

Yes.

We’re very lucky here to be sitting in Taiwan where we can ask for accountability from the government, to be in a thriving democracy as such. Many of us today are not from countries with such thriving democracy, or for some watching online, what words of advice would you have ...

Let’s walk us back to the time of your involvement, both as Minister without Portfolio and then as Taiwan’s first Digital Minister. How did you begin to design an efficient system with accountability that’s without bureaucracy?

Which is something—it’s magical, because it’s very aspirational for everybody here to be able to influence policies like that. So today, in the next 20-30 minutes, we want to talk about government, changing policy, we want to talk about technology and the future. So you are such a rare, rare ...

Thank you. The first time I interviewed you, you were a Minister without Portfolio at the time. This was when Taiwan was the star around the world. And you had gotten pulled into government work because you were somebody who was able to bridge—you came from the hacking community, but ...

Thank you, Audrey. And as we move into our Q&A, commit to change that will stay so we can be in this space. And for our participants here, by the way, also online, now get your phone up or client chat box and start asking questions. We’ll start pulling questions ...